add license and readme files. readme is mostly a placeholder so far

Author: ahelsing

LICENSE.txt

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+Copyright (c) 2010-2015 Raytheon BBN Technologies
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and/or hardware specification (the "Work") to
+deal in the Work without restriction, including without limitation the
+rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+and/or sell copies of the Work, and to permit persons to whom the Work
+is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Work.
+
+THE WORK IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
+OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
+HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE WORK OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
+IN THE WORK.

README.md

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+# geni-portal
+
+geni-portal (formerly known as 'proto-ch') is the source for the [GENI Portal](https://portal.geni.net), a web tool for managing resource reservations in [GENI](http://www.geni.net).
+
+[GENI](http://www.geni.net) is a [National Science Foundation](http://www.nsf.gov) funded suite of software and hardware to support "at scale" research and to share resources for experimentation, research and classroom use.
+
+geni-portal is a community developed package. Please [contribute](CONTRIBUTING.md)!
+
+GENI users may raise issues or get announcements on the general [GENI Users mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/geni-users).
+
+geni-portal is released under the [GENI Public License](LICENSE.txt).